Definition of "soapbox" [soapbox]

• A carton in which soap is packed. (noun)
• A temporary platform used while making an impromptu or nonofficial public speech. (noun)
• Informal To engage in impromptu or nonofficial public speaking, often flamboyantly. (verb-intransitive)
• On (one's) soapbox Speaking one's views passionately or self-importantly. (idiom)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The only real reason to target vices for taxation besides our Puritanical politicians on their soapbox is that tobacco and alcohol are very inelastic goods."
• "If it weren't that they'd throw a massive amount of money at fixing a problem that doesn't need government's money to fix (It needs government to but the hell out and let the market correct itself and settle back down; but that's another conversation for another day, as I'm digressing, and the soapbox is getting a little rickety), I'd support them just to show how disillusioned I am with their party ..."
• "You guys just seem upset that his soapbox is taller than yours."